Strategic Planning Consultant
About The Position
Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC) is a centre of excellence for transportation in North America. We contribute to Alberta's prosperity and quality of life by building and maintaining a safe, efficient, innovative, and sustainable provincial transportation system and providing water management infrastructure. With Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors, you can engage in a fulfilling career with diverse room to grow. We believe in building careers, providing opportunities for growth within the organization, and striving to provide our staff with a work-life balance, including reasonable hours of work to ensure time with family and to accommodate outside interests. The ministry promotes a vital and diverse economy by: Managing transportation safety. Supporting municipalities with public transportation infrastructure and water/wastewater systems. Expanding and enhancing a well-integrated transportation system and enabling market access. Maintaining and developing the provincial highway network and delivering water management infrastructure. For more information, visit https://www.alberta.ca/transportation-and-economic-corridors.
Requirements
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Project management, research, analytical, and writing skills.
- Organizational and prioritization skills.
- Ability to address politically sensitive issues and interpret complex data.
- Commitment to confidentiality, discretion, and tact.
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
- University graduation in Arts, Economics, Education, Engineering, Science or related field
- Two (2) years of progressively responsible related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a strategic, business, performance measurement, or reporting environment.
- Experience with presentations and facilitation
Responsibilities
- Organizing the annual Strategic Planning agenda, background information, and sessions to bring Executive Team and senior ministry representatives together (along with stakeholders) to determine strategic priorities and directions for the ministry. Summarizes and reports on the outcomes, including recommendations towards ensuring appropriate integration in planning documents.
- Developing tools and processes with divisional and branch managers to support integration of strategies and efforts across the ministry and ensure alignment and reporting of performance results in accountability documents in a manner that will withstand scrutiny of the Office of the Auditor General.
- Supporting preparation of the ministry submissions to the GOA Strategic Plan and Annual Report.
- Providing consultation and expert advice to senior staff across all the divisions on how to best support environmental scanning capacity.
- Representing the ministry, providing support, and participating in the annual GOA e-scanning process to stay appraised of the latest trends and activities that could impact the ministry.
- Leading the development of the Enterprise Risk Management register within the ministry by coordinating a series of risk reviews with Executive Team and senior management.
- Coordinating the inclusion of risk mitigation strategies into the ministry and operational plans and reporting on mitigating actions by working with the Divisional branch coordinators and representatives from across the ministry, including the Executive Directors.
Benefits
- Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
- Alberta Public Service Benefit Information
- Professional learning and development
- Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
